{"id":359,"date":"2012-12-09T00:25:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T08:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2012-12-23T18:22:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T02:22:35","slug":"special-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Special for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My Christmas ornament collection began the year I was twenty.<\/p>\n

At that point, I was in my second year of college, and looking at (someday) having a place of my own that wasn’t a dorm room.<\/p>\n

So on December 26th, after all the festivities, I took a shopping trip to downtown Wilmington, and walked through the pedestrian mall.\u00a0 And there it was, in a gift store: a cute drummer boy with that year’s date.\u00a0 It was half-price, and the thought occurred to me: “Why not?\u00a0 That will be great on my<\/em> Christmas tree!”<\/p>\n

And two years later, that ornament did, indeed, take its place on my small artificial tree, in my first apartment.\u00a0 Over the years, it’s been joined by bread-dough ornaments from San Francisco, felt creations from Oregon, a gilded basket from a favorite Los Angeles co-worker–and even a Delft ornament my cousins brought back from their European trip.<\/p>\n

Every ornament has its own story.\u00a0 On the lower branches of the tree is a gray cat in a basket–which looks like the first feline who adopted us.\u00a0 The red wooden mailbox is from one of the first trips my husband and I took, as a married couple, to Boston.\u00a0 And the crystal star is from the twelve-hour layover in Chicago, during one of my cross-country train trips to the East Coast.<\/p>\n

What decorations that you use, as Christmas approaches, evoke the most special memories or favorite Christmas stories for you?\u00a0 And how will you continue those traditions?<\/p>\n

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